Bizarre news
Snyder (OK) police chief’s wife at the center of scandal (Ron Jackson, Daily Oklahoman)
On Main Street, Snyder offers the trappings of most small towns in rural Oklahoma - a country store, a weekly newspaper office, several churches and leisurely pedestrian traffic.
The setting belies the controversy that has beseiged this town of 1,500 people in recent weeks and prompted a state investigation.
Doris Ozmun, wife of Snyder Police Chief Tod Ozmun, struggles to understand that controversy, which swirls around her adult porn Web site.
Last week, more than 70 residents crammed into the town’s tiny City Hall chambers to demand that her husband be fired. Mayor Dale Moore took a firm stand, saying Tod Ozmun would remain police chief as long as Moore remained mayor.
The debate continues to spill into the streets and into a few Sunday morning sermons.
District Attorney John Wampler, meanwhile, called the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday to request an investigation into the pornography.
“I can’t believe this has been blown so far out of proportion,” Doris Ozmun, 43, said Wednesday. “I don’t understand. I just don’t understand. I could if I had done something illegal, or if I had murdered someone. But this is amazing ... You know what I call this? I call this a witch-hunt.”
Ozmun said she has decided to shut down her Web site.
“This has mortified my family,” Ozmun said. “And it has caused a lot of hurt and destruction, not only for myself, but also for my husband and family.”
Yeah, well, start an adult porn website in a conservative rural Oklahoma town where your hubby is expected to uphold the community's values as a law-enforcement official, and you can expect to be ostracized (for better or worse).
Two arrests made in case of man's brutal attack: Victim owed suspect's mother back rent (Laura Whitley, KTRK-13 news)
Two men are in custody for the beating death of a double amputee, who investigators say was attacked because he owed money to his landlord. One of the suspects is the landlord's son. The victim, 57-year-old Barney Goodman, was laid to rest on Thursday.
Goodman bravely fought for his life several times over his 57 years. Shrapnel scared [sic] him in Vietnam. He lost both legs to diabetes. And most recently, he eight hours up a river embankment off FM 2090, searching for help. Help came, but Goodman lost the battle for his life.
Liberty County Sheriff Greg Arthur says two cousins left the Vietnam vet by the riverbank. Kenneth Dollery, 22, and Hollis Buckley, 21, both face capital murder charges.
"This investigation found that Goodman was taken under the bridge by Dollery and Buckley and beaten and robbed," said Sheriff Arthur.
Sheriff's investigators say the pair told them they threw Goodman's prosthetic legs into San Jacinto River. The man knew each other because Goodman, who also went by the name Shane, rented a room in the home of Hollis' mother, Shirley Buckley.
They threw his legs into river and killed him?! Unbelievable.
The world is going mad.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/07/06 22:35 | Other | Technorati
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